Vol. 30 No. 8, September 2004
Index
- Fighting obesity in Texas.
- Is taxpayer protection pledge a gimmick?
- Legislatures cost a bit more.
- Taxing beer.
- Reducing disparities in health care one community at a time.
- People & politics.
- Where do we come from?
- Arkansas law puts teeth in new oral health standards in schools.
- Oklahoma: death to meth.
- Faxes get the ax.
- Iowa legislature Ko's governor in court.
- Putting the brakes on older drivers.
- Dog's delight.
- E-government grows.
- Hog hell.
- Quiet please.
- Resting in Iowa.
- TGIF.
- Billions of bottles.
- Cold medicine high.
- Life and death.
- Protecting our elders.
- Sharing the harvest.
- Litigation in education: for 50 years, courts have been deciding whether states are meeting their constitutional obligations to provide a free and adequate education.
- Out of classroom experiences: teaching kids about our democracy is essential. Teachers and legislators are teaming up with great success.
- Court report: states lose a few in this term's U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
- California voters to get a swing at "three strikes": three strikes statute, Penal Code Section 667 (1994); Proposition 183, three strikes and you're out.
- The real race is in the states: the two parties are neck and neck in the states, with near parity in legislative seats. But control could change in as many as 19 chambers.
- 2004 ballot measures: everything but the kitchen sink: there's a host of initiatives and referenda on the ballot this year, but nothing like the highs of the mid-'90s.
- Power in the wrong hands: devices for changing a red light to green are great for officials responding to an emergency. But now the technology is available to anyone with $1,500.
- How to talk to kids: there's nothing like a classroom visit from a lawmaker to bring the legislative process to life. Here are five ideas for activities that work.
- Forests: better green than black: protecting our forests from wildfires has become a national priority.
- As they see it.